{"id":8135,"date":"2015-11-23T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=8135"},"modified":"2018-05-29T11:55:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T11:55:39","slug":"free-mium-gmbh-9-detection-rate-adware-covus-downloadguide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/free-mium-gmbh-9-detection-rate-adware-covus-downloadguide\/","title":{"rendered":"Free-mium GmbH &#8211; 9% Detection Rate &#8211; Adware.Covus \/ DownloadGuide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! Just a note on a publisher called <strong>Free-mium GmbH<\/strong>. The Free-mium GmbH download &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/library\/file\/vlc-media-player.exe-211897\/\">vlc-media-player.exe<\/a> &#8211; was detected when I uploaded it to <a title=\"How To Scan a File for Viruses with VirusTotal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/scan-files-for-viruses-virustotal\/\">VirusTotal<\/a>. Did you also find a download by Free-mium GmbH? Was it also detected when you uploaded it to <a title=\"How To Scan a File for Viruses with VirusTotal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/scan-files-for-viruses-virustotal\/\">VirusTotal<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Free-mium-GmbH-publisher.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8138\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Free-mium-GmbH-publisher.png\" alt=\"Free-mium GmbH publisher\" width=\"497\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Free-mium-GmbH-publisher.png 497w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Free-mium-GmbH-publisher-300x184.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By looking at the certificate we can see that Free-mium GmbH appears to be located in Berlin, Germany.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Free-mium-GmbH-cert.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8137\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Free-mium-GmbH-cert.png\" alt=\"Free-mium GmbH cert\" width=\"384\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Free-mium-GmbH-cert.png 384w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Free-mium-GmbH-cert-280x300.png 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The scan result from <a title=\"How To Scan a File for Viruses with VirusTotal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/scan-files-for-viruses-virustotal\/\">VirusTotal<\/a> below clearly shows why you probably should avoid the Free-mium GmbH file. The file is not the official VLC player, but detected under names such as Adware.Covus.6, a variant of Win32\/DownloadGuide.D potentially unwanted, PUA.DownloadGuide and PE:Adware.DownloadGuide!1.A1DB [F].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Free-mium-GmbH-anti-virus-report.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8136\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Free-mium-GmbH-anti-virus-report.png\" alt=\"Free-mium GmbH anti-virus report\" width=\"776\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Free-mium-GmbH-anti-virus-report.png 776w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Free-mium-GmbH-anti-virus-report-300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want to download the official VLC player, you can do so from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\">videolan.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Did you also find a file digitally signed by Free-mium GmbH? What kind of download was it and where did you find it?<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! Just a note on a publisher called Free-mium GmbH. The Free-mium GmbH download &#8211; vlc-media-player.exe &#8211; was detected when I uploaded it to VirusTotal. Did you also find a download by Free-mium GmbH? Was it also detected when you uploaded it to VirusTotal? By looking at the certificate we can see that Free-mium GmbH &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/free-mium-gmbh-9-detection-rate-adware-covus-downloadguide\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Free-mium GmbH &#8211; 9% Detection Rate &#8211; Adware.Covus \/ DownloadGuide<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[872,873],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8140,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8135\/revisions\/8140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}